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> Core to many Texans identity is a belief that someday Texas is going to secede from the Union again and become its own independent country. This is an overst
by look_lookatme 7y ago
> Core to many Texans identity is a belief that someday Texas is going to secede from the Union again and become its own independent country.
This is an overstatement.
- jabagonuts 7y agoIt’s not that we will, it’s that we have the option.
- reaperducer 7y agoNo, you don't. That notion has been debunked numerous times. It's just folklore and something drunk people say at sporting events against non-Texan teams.
- brobdingnagians 7y agoTechnically _all_ the states have that option. The Constitution doesn't prohibit it, tenth amendment reserves all other powers to the states; they entered voluntarily into the Constitution believing it would help them each individually. The reason it's "debunked" is because of the might makes right attitude that took hold because of the Civil War. That attitude doesn't take people to good places...
- ruip 7y agoA future hypothetical has been debunked?
- pradn 7y agoI've lived in Texas for 8 years and this has always been talked of as a fun fact or a curiosity, not as a real, possible thing (aside from some minor fringe elements.)
- repolfx 7y agoDon't read too much into that. Prior to 2016 people talked about Brexit and a Trump presidencythe same way.